Craftyminx

I'm sooo lazy

Yeah that is me, completely lazy. Not inspired to do any school work or much crafting either to be completely honest. I guess I've been trying to clean up my space. The day I took the old nasty furniture to the thrift store I just went through my closets and started throwing stuff out. Since I only had 30 minutes and couldn't think about anything, I got rid of sooo much that I had been hanging on to for no reason. I am planning on a few more of these soon. I just have too much stuff that came into this apartment with me and I continue shopping. I'm pretty sure the cat lady comment got to me some how, so I'm trying to make the place look more minimalist and like a 25 year old lives here. I went through some boxes yesterday that I hadn't opened since I moved in last MAY! I've accepted the fact that I can't buy a house until I'm finished with school and have my car paid off, so I really should fully move in. Maybe I'll even get permission to paint a wall. I really need to feel more at home.

Wow see how I drag on and completely loose focus? I wasn't even planning on going into how I've been cleaning constantly and changing the place around. Oh well...

I'll leave you with some fun pictures because I haven't made anything in a while to show off. Give me two weeks and the semester of death will be over until summer school starts up in June.

Weaving in the ends of the shawl in the McDonalds drive thru. Yes, I am that classy. I'm pretty sure Catherine laughed some pounds off at me doing this.

Hot tranny mess in my sunglasses. He's pretty, it is ok to say so. ;)

Yarn Pirate and Hello Kitty representing on the guitar hero controllers.

Yeah I've had a pretty good weekend of pretending that the end of the semester is not upon me. :( I'll see you all in two weeks. Or tomorrow, because you know I would much rather be on here than writing papers.

Labels: hello kitty, Knitting in Public, life

Hello Kitty... hell?

I have recently fallen in love with the site, Hello Kitty Hell. I know one day it will be the favorite blog of my future other half whoever they may be. Today's post, though, made me laugh out loud. I am so glad I made the promise to keep the Kitty in my studio only. She's tried to take over the house before and I just can't let that happen. It's a promise to my future other half, I realize that not everyone adores her like I do.

Labels: hello kitty

Yum Cake!

I made a practice cake tonight for Levi's birthday tomorrow. I am silly and have to try things out before I make them for people. Levi wanted whipped cream icing, but I've never found a recipe I like. So tonight I made this...

I made three 6 inch white cakes from a box. Then I cut one into three layers and put some warmed strawberry jam between the layers. I made a whipped cream icing that just isn't sweet at all and it kind of leaves a taste in your mouth. Tomorrow I'll make this icing, because I think it will be more like the whipped cream icing they use in bakeries. If anyone else has a recipe they like, please send it to me.

I got some super cute wrapping paper from Michaels tonight, so I covered the cardboard round with it. It is Martha Stewart wrapping paper, they had a bunch of different kinds for a dollar each. There isn't very much, but it is really thick and pretty.

Labels: cake, food

Mail bag

I've been getting a lot of mail lately. My yarn from knitpicks and webs came in as well as some blocking wires from knitpicks. I didn't take pictures because it all seemed kind of boring haha.

But... Ta da! I've been buying other things as well.
First, a special order I had made at Material Whirled. Hello Kitty Yarn!!! I bought some hello kitty beads of ebay and sent them to Reenie to spin up some magic for me. It looks amazing and she even added my favorite color, pink from space.

It's hard to see the beads, but they are there and awesome looking I must say. :)

I also became a yarn pirate booty club member and received my first package on Friday. I'm not posting the yarn, but it is beautiful! These are my extras for being a new member.

I also bought a trash tie from Heather Bailey's trash ties website.

So these kind of made me a little annoyed, I had to wait way too long for them to get shipped. Like three to four weeks (I'm sure there is a reason, but I'm impatient we've discussed this). Once they were sent it took two days to get to me so that is good. The other thing is that I'm finding it hard to get the one long tie to do much. I have a lot of hair, maybe that is it. Maybe I just have a fat head haha. I also feel like I need 8 hands to get it to work. These really are a great idea and I like the concept a lot. I think my hair needs one made out of velvet to actually hold anything though. but here is my first successful attempt. Maybe I will learn to love it after some practice...

Oh I also couldn't even think of getting it up when my hair was dry. I have really silky hair and it just doesn't like to go up in things. I don't know... I'm not giving up, but I would really like to know how to make it work. I'm waiting for those how-to videos Heather, haha I'll stalk your site until they are up. Oh and it would really help if the person in the video was actually doing their own hair.

Oh and if the wind here would stop it would help. This is how I looked when I got home. Dumb Oklahoma wind!

Labels: hello kitty, yarn

New Hotness!

It's here. It fits. It is beautiful!

It doesn't even look that bad with the awful blue carpet.

Waiting...

I'm sitting in my empty apartment waiting for my furniture to be delivered. I'm not a big fan of waiting for anything, but I have homework to do so it's ok. I don't have to be at work so I'm happy. I'm listening to some of my new favorite artists. Kate Nash, Tracy Spuehler and Bombadil are pure fun. Go check them out.

ooh they're here!!!!

Waiting...

I'm sitting in my empty apartment waiting for my furniture to be delivered. I'm not a big fan of waiting for anything, but I have homework to do so it's ok. I don't have to be at work so I'm happy. I'm listening to some of my new favorite artists. Kate Nash, Tracy Spuehler and Bombadil are pure fun. Go check them out.

ooh they're here!!!!

A little exciting stuff!

So remember this?

The couch of death...


and the old man chairs? All of which has to be continually covered with blankets to keep the allergens in the furniture and out of my body?

Well I am very happy to announce that I am grown up people now and have bought some furniture! Squeeee

Yesterday Leaves, Cat and I went furniture shopping and after much debate, I purchased this whole set. Furniture salesmen are worse than car salesmen. Geez it was a rough time. I was just going to get a couch, so I was looking at some leather ones that had some antique qualities about them, but I knew they just wouldn't match my apartment. This one caught my eye the first time I saw it. For some reason I have just wanted a green couch. haha

Remember road kill?


And the urban outfitters couch I was about 5 seconds away from purchasing?

Really, I still love this one, but I just couldn't justify spending $625 on a sofa that was going to be shipped ups when I could get the one I bought for $325. And, I was still a little iffy about the low back and the fact that they sold out of the chairs that matched it last week. Oh, and I've been waiting on fabric samples for about two weeks. And this one would take 3 to 4 weeks to be shipped. Ugh just too many I'm not so sure about this...

Oh and just so you all don't think I'm independently wealthy, remember it is tax season, I'm a full time student, and we get that awesome stimulus check. I feel it is my duty as a citizen of this country to boost the economy haha.

I got the couch, loveseat, chair, ottoman, delivery and five year protection plan for $1594. Seeing that the leather couches I was looking at were well over $1000, I am very pleased with the purchase. I really feel like an adult now, is that weird? I've bought my own car and now my own furniture. It makes me happy :)

Labels: decor

Rock N' Roll Garage Sale

Last year I sold stuff at the Punk Rock Garage Sale, but this year I knew I would be too busy to make stuff so I declined on having a table this year. I did, however, have time to go out and support the crafters who were there and I got to listen to some great music. I love seeing what people in Oklahoma City are doing! Want to see what caught my eye??

JDStar Handwoven bracelets

She makes them in a few different lengths so you can get the perfect fit and I really liked how she uses a lot of different snaps for the closures. I saw these at Blue 7 today as well, if you are in the area and want one now. :) I bought two at the show, one for me and one for Levi.

Happy Place Design

She has a lot of cute plush mini pillows, pincushions, and pins. Very fun colors and patterns. I like whimsy! I bought a pincushion.

I also bought this from my friend Jen, but I didn't remember I had my camera when I was at her booth. So you just get a picture of what she made. haha Felt and fabric Luggage tags! Don't you love it? It made me excited.

There was also one other booth that I loved, but I didn't get a picture. I did grab her card though. Claudia's Burning Ink has wood burned and painted tattoo inspired art work. Very nice stuff! I really liked her picture frames and will most likely hit her up next weekend at the '89er days thing in Norman.

Labels: shop crafty

I'm too old for this...

Since visiting Gypsy, where Friday nights are spent playing the Golden Girls drinking game, I have been wanting to have some friends over for some fun. Last night we played the Sweeney Todd drinking game. It was a lot of fun, but should have been played on a Friday night. Work is hard after a night of drinking. Now I'm thinking a Firefly drinking game night is in the works. Shiny!

I've been wearing my CPH almost every day since I finished it. I LOVE it!!! And Northampton yarn is amazing and doesn't seem to be pilling at all.

I get to see my mom tonight and give her the yarn I dyed for her birthday. I hope she likes it and actually makes something out of it. haha

I have recently bought two sweaters worth of yarn. One is for Brooklyn Tweed's Cobblestone (cascade 220 from the webs sale) and the other is for Kate Gilbert's Camellia (knitpicks cotlin) which I recently purchased the pattern for. I am super excited about knitting sweaters this summer :).

Labels: knitting, life